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Normal Story
Thoughts
Fox talking/ POV's
"Talking"
Time Skip
Last Time on Iron Heart Alchemist
"Now you can't leave, not until we are even."
"Even? What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"Well when someone saves a life of another, that other has to stay with the person till the debt is repaid. Since I saved your life, you now owe me." I said with a smirk.
"You mean you WANT me to stay. Fine, how do I repay you?"
At this point, we had reached the house and were back in Al and mine bed room.
"That's easy; you have to save my life."
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Time Skip: One Year Later
Ages:
Ed:6
Winry:6
Naruto:6
Al:5
During the time Naruto and the Elrics had became like a family. Ed, Al and Naruto have all started to learn alchemy in secret.
Naruto's POV:
I can't believe it's been a year since I almost drowned, and Ed saved my life. The Elrics have been so kind to me. I wonder if this is how it feels to have family and friends. People always think that Ed and Al are my younger brothers, and Ed always yells at them for it. You would think that he would yell at them because we are not related, but no, it's because Ed is older, even if it is by only a few months. I can't blame him though; if I was that short I would yell too.
Shortly after I started living here, was my 6th birthday. Trisha held a small party for me. I still don't know how she knew when it was, since I never told her. I wasn't expecting anything. Today, however, is Winry's birthday.
Ed, Al and I were headed over to Winry's house. We carried with us a book, some chalk, and what was needed to make a doll.
In front of me is Ed. He was reading an alchemy book that he took from his father's study. I was half-expecting him to run in to something or someone. Behind both of us was Al. He was pulling a wagon with everything else in it. He had this look on his face, that said 'I want to help, but I don't want to get in trouble, what should I do?'.
"Al, Hey Al, Alphonse, Hey Shorty ar-"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT, HE COULD BE MISTAKEN FOR A PRESCHOOLER" Ed shouted.
"I wasn't even talking to you, so why don't you go back to your book, you bookworm. And you're smaller then some of the preschoolers" After sticking my tongue out at Ed, I turned back to Al, and started again.
"Don't worry Al, Winry is going to love her birthday present. I mean we are making her a doll, isn't that what girls like?"
"What if we get in trouble?" asked Al.
"Don't worry; if we do then we can always blame it on the bookworm up there." I said pointing to the older boy, who was in front of us. Hearing what I said Al looked even more sad then he did a moment ago.
"I was kidding Al. If it comes down to it, I will take the fall, 'kay."
After our little talk, we got to Winry's house. Ed knocked on the door. After being let in we went up to Winry's room, and we pushed her desk away. Ed started to draw a circle on the floor.
"Hey, I'm bored" Winry said in the most annoying voice ever.
"Just one more moment!" Al said, hoping Ed was done with the circle.
"Alright it's done." said Ed.
"What do you think Winry, isn't it great." I said with a big smile. Hey dumb dumb, she isn't going to know what it is.
"I think it's a lousy present" Winry said with sadness in her voice. Called it.
"That's not the present; it's just the outline for one." Ed said like he thought everyone knew that.
The three of us put everything in the center, being careful not to ruin the circle. We then put our hands on the edge of the circle. Once our hands touched the circle there was a flash of gold and the form of the doll started to manifest itself. Right before it was done, we heard a yell, then Winry started to cry.
Oh no, we are sooo going to get into trouble.
Once the gold light faded, Winry's parents and grandma came running in. Her parents went to her to try to calm her down, while her grandma looked at the doll, then at us.
"Winry dear why don't we go into the kitchen and have some cake." said her mother.
"You three out of this house, and I'm calling your mother." said Winry's father.
Time Skip: Five Minutes Later
Normal POV:
"They weren't trying to scare you Winry, they went through a lot of trouble so you can have a nice present." Winry's father said, hoping to calm the crying girl down.
"That's right. Edward, Alphonse and Naruto were just trying do something special for you." Trisha said to the young girl in front of her. "I'm sorry about this, it's a misunderstanding." she continued.
"But there is no mistake of talent." Pinako, Winry's grandmother, came into the room holding the doll that was forgotten. "I've seen even the most gifted of folks give up before they even do anything of real mange. But your boys have one heck of a start. And that Naruto isn't half bad, either. Look at this work." Pinako held up the doll so everyone could see.
"I know it's stunning, but they shouldn't even know anything about alchemy." Trisha said with a thoughtful look on her face.
"They are his boys, after all. Well, not Naruto, there is something off about the boy, though." Pinako then handed the doll to Winry.
"I think you should keep this. The boys worked so hard on it, and made it just for you." Pinako said with a rare smile on her lips.
"I will talk to them." with that, Trisha got up and left the house, but not before wishing Winry a happy birthday.
The boys saw Trisha leave the house. They got up from where they were sitting and walked over to her. Then the four started to walk home.
"Ok boys no secrets, when did your dad teach you alchemy?" Trisha asked with a smile on her face.
"How can we learn from someone who is never here?" Ed said a little too bitter.
"We learned from this book." Al said as he handed it over to her.
"I haven't met their father." Naruto said with sadness.
"You mean, you really understand it on your own?" a shocked Trisha asked.
"More or less." Ed and Al said at the same time.
"I have to break it down a little for Naruto though, but I don't mind." Ed continued. "So, are we in trouble?"
"You mean for using alchemy? No Ed I'm proud, I think I'll brag about it to everyone I know." Trisha said happily. She looked to her left to where Naruto was walking, and noticed that he didn't seem as happy about it as her sons were. "That means I'm proud of all of you; that includes you, too, Naruto." Seeing that this made him happy a thought came into her head. "In fact now the three of you can start using your father's study." This made all the boys happy as they ran into the house.
They all ran to the house, but the door was locked.
"I will unlock this door, but you have to put the books back where you found them." Trisha said as she unlocked, then opened the door.
"We will." all three said at the same time.
"And when your father gets back, be sure to thank him."
"Ok." said Ed and Al.
"That means you too, Naruto."
"But he's not my father." Naruto replied. He made the mistake of looking into her eyes, because what he saw there was disappointment. "But! I will still thank him if I ever see him." Naruto said hoping that would fix things.
Naruto then ran off and joined the other two boys at the bookcase. All three of them were pulling books down and arguing about which one to grab, when suddenly there was a crash. The boys had managed to pull down all the books at once.
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Time Skip: Two Years
Ages:
Ed: 8
Winry: 8
Naruto: 8
Al: 7
During this time, Naruto has started to call Trisha "mom". He views Ed and Al as his older and younger brothers. They started to call each other as such. Winry's parents went off to be doctors in the war, leaving Winry in the care of her grandmother.
Normal POV:
Ed, Al and Naruto ran out of the house carrying what looked like a metal horse, and two metal pigs. The boys saw their mother and ran over to show them off.
"Mom look; mom look!" Al shouted at the woman hanging up the laundry.
"What do you have there?" Trisha said looking at the three boys in front of her.
"Ed made it. Isn't it awesome?" Al continued.
"Yeah, we can only make these ones." Naruto shoved his pig in her face.
"Well, I think that they are all beautiful. You well are his kids, no doubt about it." Trisha said with a huge smile on her face. Naruto then turned on his heel and ran. Over his shoulder he yelled:
"I'm going to Winry's."
"Brother, wait!" Ed and Al shouted, and ran after him. Naruto kept running until he came to the hill that was right before Winry's house. He sat down and waited for his brothers to catch up.
"Hey Ed, Al, what's your father like?" Naruto asked once they had caught up. Al looked at Ed, and sat down.
"He's a good for nothing man." Ed said as he sat in-between Naruto and Al.
"Brother, why are you so angry at daddy all the time?" Al asked with sadness in his voice.
"Why do you think, he ditched us. I can't say that I hate him, I don't remember enough, but when mom thinks about him, she gets sad. That's enough not to like him." Ed said on the edge of crying.
"Wow, that sucks. At least our mom is cool." Naruto said smiling.
Ed then reached over and played with Al's hair.
"All right why don't we show Winry our awesome work. Last one there is a rotten egg." Naruto said as he bolted up and ran the rest of the way to her house. Ed and Al shared a grin before following him.
When they got there, what they found shook them to their core. They found Winry sitting at her kitchen table crying. She stopped long enough to tell them that her parents were dead.
"What do you mean dead?" Al asked in a confused tone.
"Don't be stupid Al, their plain dead, my mom and dad are dead." Winry said in-between sobs.
"Yeah, but how? I thought they were just doctors." Ed asked, hoping Winry would know.
"It was a surprise attack."
"Winry" Al said as he walked over and put his pig on the table in front of her. "Our dad is going, too, you know. We'll make it ok."
"Shut up you idiot!" Winry then threw the pig off the table and stood up looking Al straight in the face. "Your dad just ran off; both of my parents are dead. They can never, ever come back."
Naruto, who was standing quietly near the door, then walked over and stood next to Al.
"So are mine, Winry. I lost both of my parents when I was just a day old. I don't remember what they look like, what they sound like, I don't even remember what they smell like. When you start to forget what they look like you can look over to that picture on the wall over there and look at them. I don't even have that. So be happy that you got to spend that time with them, because that's more than I ever got." Naruto all but yelled at Winry.
"You know, we can try to bring them back. I read it in a book once. There is this artificially made thing called a homunculus." Ed said picking up Al's pig. "It's like a living doll without a mind to begin with. Some people believe that with alchemy if you're willing to give up enough th-"
"Stop!" Pinako yelled "There will be no talking like that in this house, you understand me. That's a forbidden science. Alchemy is not some magic end all answer. That's why we auto-mail mechanics exist."
"Backward old bat." Naruto and Ed said at the same time. Upon hearing this Pinako starts to throw things at all the boys, and runs them out of the house. As the boys make it back up the hill that they were on earlier, they stopped, and sat once again.
"You know, she's right. Winry lost more than we ever will." Ed said looking at grass.
"Maybe more then you two but I have already been there. I meant every word I said back there, well maybe not the backwards old bat thing." Naruto said with tears in his eyes.
"Sorry about your real parents. I guess it's because you have lived with us so long, that I forget that we aren't really brothers." Ed relied
"That's ok, Let's head back."
They walked in silence, but when the house came into view, Naruto then said:
"You know, you guys are my brothers, and Trisha is my mother, and nothing can change that."
At that moment, the boys looked up and saw their mother, and ran to her. When they reached her, they threw their hands around her and started to cry.
"What's matter with you three, come on now, my little men, what can be so bad?" Trisha said in a sweet voice.
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Time Skip: Two Weeks Later
Normal POV:
Ed, Al, and Naruto ran down the road towards their home, carrying baskets of food. They were laughing and having a good time. Naruto ran in and threw the door open. He saw Trisha lying on the floor, face down, not moving. He dropped his basket and ran to her side.
"Al, don't come in here. Go get Dr. Sampson, tell him our mother needs him A.S.A.P, HURRY!" Naruto waited for Al to be gone before he addressed Ed. "Ed, I need you to help me get her to her room. That way, it will be easier for the doctor to look at her." nodding his head, Ed walked over to the other side of Trisha and flipped her. Once on her back, Trisha started to stir.
"Hey, how are my little men?" Trisha asked with a smile on her face, as if nothing had happened.
"Mom, can you walk?" Ed asked her. Nodding her head yes he continued "We are going to help you to bed. Al went to get the doctor."
Without saying a word, Trisha got up with the help of Ed and Naruto, and walked into her room. Ed fluffed her pillow while Naruto covered her body with her blanket
As soon as they were done, Al came running in with the doctor.
"Hey doc, she's in here!" yelled Ed.
When Trisha saw the doctor she smiled and said "Hey Gary, how's the wife?"
"She's fine Trisha, but I'm more worried about you at the moment. Umm, boys, I'm sorry, but you are going to have to leave." the doctor said.
"WHAT?" Ed and Naruto shouted at the same time.
"It's ok Gary. It's time they knew. Boys, I'm sick. I've been sick for some time." Trisha said not looking at the boys.
"Boys, your mother, I fear, won't live much longer." Dr. Sampson said to three boys.
"How long?" Ed said so quietly that it was almost not heard.
"It's going to be ok, Ed." Al said.
"HOW LONG?" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Six months, to a year." Dr. Sampson said in a sad voice. He then turned back to the ill woman in bed. "You're on bed rest. I don't want you getting up for anything. I don't care how well you feel, you are not to leave this bed. You three are to tell me if she gets up for anything other than to go to the bathroom, to bathe, and to change the sheets." He said to the three shocked and crying boys.
"Now, Trisha." He looked at the woman, who was fast asleep. "Why don't we let her get some sleep?" Dr. Sampson then walked out of the room and waited for the three to follow. Once all four were in the kitchen, Dr. Sampson handed Ed a bottle of blue pills. "Now, make sure she takes one of these three times a day, every day, until the bottle is empty."
He then bent down untill he was the same height as the boys.
"I'm sorry, boys. I've done all I could do. The best thing is to make her comfortable." He then stood up and left the house.
Ed then calmly walked to his mother's room and closed the door. He stood there for a while, then he dashed into the study.
"Al, HEY AL! Where are those letters dad sent us?" Ed asked from where he was.
"They should be on the desk." Al said as he walked into study. He saw Ed looking at the desk as if it had grew another head. "I take it from your look that they're not there."
"No Al, if they were I wouldn't have asked." Ed said in a sad voice.
"That's because I have them." Naruto said as he handed them to Al. "I'm sorry Ed, I wanted to know what kind of person your father was. So, every time you guys got a letter, I would read it."
"It's fine." He took the letter from Al and looked at them. "I'm going to send letters to all these addresses to see if I can't find him. Maybe if we can find him, it will make mom better."
"Ed, you know that won't work." Naruto said in a very sad voice.
"I know, but I have to do something. Now you can either help write the letters, or get out of my way." Ed said in a very stern voice.
Naruto then walked out of the room. Looking at the door in shock, he mumbled something under his breath. He then walked over to the desk and sat down. Ed then pulled out a piece of paper. As he put the pen to the paper, he heard a noise behind him.
"Hey shorty, are you going to move over, so Al and I can join you, or are you going to write all those letters yourself?" Naruto stood behind him with two chairs, and a smirk on his face.
"I'M NOT SHORT!" Ed yelled. Naruto then ran over and covered Ed's mouth.
"Hey dummy, are you trying to wake mom up? 'Cause if you keep yelling, you are going to." Naruto then removed his hand, but not before Ed had licked it.
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Time Skip: Six Months Later
In this time the boys took turns watching their mother, while the other two went to the train station. Their mother's condition kept getting worse and worse.
Naruto's POV:
All of us were called to mom's bed. The doctor said that she may not make it through the night. We were all in her room as she was telling us goodbye. She told Winry that she has grown up beautifully and that when she sees them, to tell them how much she loved watching her grow up with her boys. She told Ed and Al that their father was a good man and not to be mad at him all the time. She asked Pinako to look after us when she was gone. She then turned to me.
"Naruto, my son. If I meet your parents, then I will tell them that their son is no longer alone, that he has found a family..." She looked over to my left where Ed and Al standing " ... and friends ..." She then looked at my right, where Pinako and Winry were standing " ... and I'm proud to say you're my son."
"Ed, there is some money your father sent. I haven't touched a cent of it; I was saving it for you three. Take care of your younger brothers. Ed, can you transmute something for me? A ring of flowers would be nice. Your father would always make them for me."
Once she said the last word, Mom then closed her eyes and looked like she was asleep.
She's not asleep, she's dead.
Darkness was all I saw as I passed out.
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Time Skip: Three Days Later
In the three days since their mother died, the boys have been staying at Pinako's house. All Al did was sleep and cry. Naruto and Ed read non-stop. Today was the day that their mother was to be buried.
Normal POV:
The three boys watched as six people they had never seen before took their mother to her final resting place. As they lowered her into the ground, Al and Naruto, along with several other people, started to cry. When they started to cover her coffin with dirt, Ed walked over and held Al, so he couldn't see. After it was all covered, everyone told the three boys how sorry they were, and then they left, leaving the three along at the grave.
"Hey Ed, follow me; Al stay here so we know where to find you." Naruto then walked away. Once he got to where he was out of ear shot of Al, he stopped.
"Ed, do you remember when Winry's parents died, and you started talking about making a homunculus? I think we should make one, I think we should bring mom back." Naruto said watching Ed to see if he liked this idea. When Ed's face didn't change, he opened his mouth to continue, when Ed answered.
"Why did you bring me over here before you asked me?"
"Because I didn't want to say anything in front of Al, get his hopes up, and then we don't do it, and he'll be crushed all over again. I couldn't live with myself if I was the cause of his pain." Naruto said in a small voice.
"Ed, Naruto!" Al yelled.
Both boys ran over to see if everything was ok.
"Brothers I'm hungry, and cold, too. How are we going to do this? How are we going to live without her?" Al asked as he started to cry harder. Naruto opened his mouth to say something, but Ed beat him to it.
"We're not, Al, we are going to bring her back."
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Author's Note:
Thank you for reading.
A guest reviewer asked for a longer chapter, well I hope you're happy 'cause this is the longest chapter I have ever written. It took me four days to write it because I have the attention span of a hamster on crack.
The ages of the kids when the story first starts are as follows:
Edward: 6
Winry: 6
Alphonse: 5
Naruto: 5 (almost 6)
Thank you to my beta (I bet you get tired of seeing that (brica: No, no, not at all! You are very much mistaken!)) you are a huge help (brica: I know!).
Naruto Fact:
Sasori made a brief appearance in the Naruto: Shippūden episode 129 omake, walking past Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki in a festival, glancing at the former.
(When I saw this I went back and watched the episode again, sure enough it was there.)
Naruto Quote:
(Upon seeing Kankuro using his puppet body) "My old puppet body… Suddenly it all seems so pointless. I now have the body I've always desired, one that will never rot or decay. I've truly become a puppet in every sense of the word."